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I have a headache, too much logic and thinking going on..................any one want a cuppa?

I do agree with Doc too

If you kept an animal in that amount of pain and suffering now doubt you would be prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering to animals. If person want the choice to end things then it should be there choice. It is only them that know just what pain and suffering that they are going through and it is all well and good for some one who is in the Pink and with with out ache saying that they should get on with it.

I think that a form of assisted suicide should be allowed. It's no different in many ways to someone chosing not to have a possibly life -prolonging major or disfiguring operation or chemotherapy because they would prefer a shorter life with better quality.

I think there need to be some safeguards, such as making sure anyone interested in assisted suicide gets to see a palliative care team first so that they can explore all the options. I also think that a doctor maybe not involved in a person's day to day care should be the one to actually write the prescription & provide the drugs, so that that person can work with the GP or medical team already caring for the patient without them actually trying to ride two horses. Doctors who prescribe maintenace drugs to addicts have to be specially trained and registered - maybe a similar system.

I meet many people who fear to be a burden, and also some relatives who want to get their hands on the house or money - that won't be something new. It's just something like child abuse that most people don't really want to think about.

Whether you'd participate professionally probably depends on how you view your role. I think my role is to relieve suffering, rather than a mechanistic and more narrow "prolonging life". You can always do the first, even just by holding someone's hand, no matter what the circumstances.

Doc, you raise a very interesting point by saying that there could be relative's waiting to get thier hand's on money/property.

My parent's have asked me to end it for them if they get to ill, now, if I carry out thier wishe's do I lose my inheritance?. I'm not worried about losing my inheritance, so would it go to my brother's and sister's?.

This could open up a big can of worms.

The solutions's easy! I'll only be inheriting debts.

Do you want my dad's Jim Reeves albums!!

Doc wrote: isnt plying someone with pills to keep them warm and "alive" also against your thinking?

I think there is a fine line. The bottom line for me, however, is that life is absolutely sacred. If someone were kept alive, say, while a donor organ was being waited for, then that makes sense to me. It doesn't make sense to keep someone artificially alive (say, in a vegetative state) when there is no hope.

The balance between the two concepts of keeping people alive and allowing assisted suicide, in my view tips clearly on the side of maintaining life. I feel that legislation is inaporpriate. I believe that, as creatures endowed with free will, the choice itself is ours alone and one that we will ultimately answer to our Maker for.